Schmidhuber: banning superintelligence is infeasible as compute gets 10x cheaper every 5 years
SchmidhuberAI · x · 2026-09-24
Replying to Bernie Sanders' call to ban superintelligence, Jürgen Schmidhuber argues this is infeasible: compute gets 10x cheaper every 5 years, and soon millions will run frontier labs and recursive self-improvement algorithms on desktops. In a technical note (IDSIA-9-26), he traces his own RSI lineage — first concrete RSI algorithms in 1987 (when compute was 100,000,000x more expensive), self-modifying policies since 1994, gradient-based RSI since 1992, and the Gödel Machine since 2003 — claiming RSI now drives both software and physical AI.
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